Oak smoked wheat/barleywine? Could be very interesting. I'd prefer the smoke be left in a supporting role, but Stone does things to the hilt, so...we'll see

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Their smoked porter has a pretty subtle smokiness... Either that or Aecht Schlenkerla's beers have desensitized me. Or maybe a bit of each. Either way I'm probably hoping for a smokier beer than you are.

I wasn't too happy with the Belgo Anise IRS (although I didn't hate it but to me their IRS has too much of an anise flavor already so more didn't help) but I thought the Belgo Old Guardian was awesome. Just my opinion apparently though since everyone I meet seemed to hate it. That smoked OG sounds like an awesome experiment too. And I really hope they do more than add coffee to their IRS because that's not very interesting or "odd".

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I feel like Stone has been all over the map lately. I really enjoyed Ruination 10th and More Brown (and have heard repeatedly that Enjoy By is great) but 16th Anny, Belgo IRS and 12/12/12 were way overdone. Like, they should have halved the spices, way out of whack. Absolutely agree that Coffee IRS sounds like a winner but I really want to see these guys show a modicum of restraint with their upcoming releases. I know that they relish their attitude but this is becoming some Magic Hat shit.